Physicians vs guns

03/21/2005 Dr Wingnut Humor Comments Off on Physicians vs guns

Physicians:

  1. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
  2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
  3. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services)

Guns:

  1. The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
  2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.
  3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188.

Statistically, physicians are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, “Guns don’t kill people, physicians do”

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE PHYSICIAN.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.  We must ban physicians before this gets completely out of hand!  (Out of concern for the public at large, we have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.)

via email from Duane McDowell, Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:37:20 -0600